Doctors in New York are being told to test hospitalized patients for H5N1 bird flu amid growing concerns over human-to-human spread.
The state’s health department issued an alert to physicians on February 3 instructing them to test people with type A influenza for the H5N1 strain ‘within 24 hours of admission’.
Type A is a family of influenza viruses that includes several strains, including the one that caused the 2009 swine flu pandemic and H5N1 which is currently tearing through dairy and poultry farms in the US.
Minnesota has also issued advisories urging doctors to test type A flu patients for H5N1 ‘as soon as possible… ideally within 24 hours’.
Experts said that the orders highlight the growing concerns about the virus mutating and spreading between people.
Fears over a potential flu pandemic have been quietly building for months amid the worst outbreak of the virus in nearly three decades.
Data shows that 7.75 percent of patients visiting the ER had a flu-like illness in the week to February 1, the latest data available, which is the highest for that time period since the CDC started tracking the metric in 1997.
This year, the outbreak is being driven by type A flu viruses. The concern is that if more bird flu cases infect people they could go undetected or mistaken for common strains.
New York shuttered its live poultry markets for deep cleaning on Friday after bird flu was detected in the three boroughs of New York City.
The state has not detected a case of the virus in a human to date.
Hospitalizations in New York state for flu are at their highest level in at least four years, after 3,138 patients were admitted in the latest week — also up 12 percent in a fortnight.
Dr Aaron Glatt, an epidemiologist at Mount Sinai, told the Daily Mail that his hospital was experiencing the worst outbreak he had ever seen in his career.
‘We see a lot of flu A, we are seeing probably, according to the CDC, the worst flu season ever,’ he said.
‘That’s also in terms of my own experience too, in terms of what I see myself in the hospital and with colleagues.’
Across the US this year, the CDC estimates that more than 24 million people have been sickened with flu while 310,000 have been hospitalized and 13,000 have died.
Forty-five states, including New York, have flu levels that are either ‘high’ or ‘very high’, while schools in at least ten states have been forced to close because of the virus.
More than 75 percent of flu cases recorded every year tend to be type A, which includes the H1N1, or swine flu, virus that caused the 2009 pandemic and H5N1, or bird flu.
A total of 68 people have tested positive for H5N1 in the US.
Most of the patients have suffered from only mild symptoms, such as conjunctivitis — or redness in the eye, and no respiratory symptoms.
Nearly all the cases have been linked to contact with cattle or domestic or wild birds.
The alert was published by New York state on its own Health Alert Network — used for sending urgent updates to clinicians — on February 3.
It read: ‘CDC is now recommending ordering subtyping for all influenza A-positive specimens collected from hospitalized individuals within 24 hours of hospital admission to help rapidly detect any human cases of avian influenza A(H5N1).’
Minnesota released its advisory urging doctors to test hospitalized type A flu patients for bird flu on January 23.
The CDC also issued a nationwide alert, or Health Alert Network (HAN) notice, on January 16 telling all states to ‘expedite’ testing of hospitalized flu patients.
It said the testing should be done for all patients with type A strains, but especially those in the ICU, to allow for optimal care and proper infection prevention measures — such as isolating patients and their close contacts.
Both the Minnesota and New York updates were issued after the CDC communications ‘blackout’ was ordered on January 21 amid the transfer of power.
After admission, patients are tested for the type of flu they are infected with to establish whether they have type A.
Swabs positive for this type may then be sent for further analysis in hospital or state laboratories to determine whether a patient is infected with H5N1, or bird flu.
Dr Eric Feigl-Ding, an epidemiologist based in Washington DC, said on X: ‘The rise of unknown subtyping flu A has led NY to issue a new alert to subtype all Flu A immediately for bird flu.
‘Given how the memo was worded, I think they are worried about airborne transmission and human-to-human potential.’
Hospitals in at least nine states have brought back face masks, while at least three schools are now being closed because of surging cases.
Hospitals in Minnesota, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, California, Illinois, Indiana, New Jersey and New York are among those to bring back face mask requirements.
Hospitals say that the masks can help to curb the spread of infections, despite several studies suggesting they have little to no impact.
School districts in parts of Alabama, Tennessee and Texas have also closed temporarily to try to limit the spread of viruses.
the jew pigs are doing it again.
If you go to the hospital for a cold, you deserve what you get. Take some Zinc.
“Americans are the most misled, misdirected, and therefore the most gullible people on the face of the planet” ~ Alan Hart, author
They’ll use many cycles of the PCR test again and discover all the healthy people are actually sick and need a shot!
LOL. The sons of Satan are pushing yet another Hoax-19. This time it’s Hoax-25. I asked my “doctor” which cigarette he would recommend, and of course he said Camel. Screw the jewReal sons of Satan. And screw any “doctor” that pushes this lie.
ed note–by what if it’s not a ‘hoax’ this time, but the real deal, and that they intend to kill off huge numbers of people in order to make good on all their prophecies concerning Judaic World Domination, what then?
fake jews can’t fool a based christian…ivermectin from God kills their lab altered viruses
PCR cannot isolate or identify anything per Kery Mullis, its creator. The tests were ordered for world wide distribution in 2017 available from the WITS database. The plan was initiated before 1984 and VAERs which is an abomination was set up by Ronald Reagan, Freemason and Bohemian Grover (Homo-Sexual). In 1976, Mr. Wallace exposed the Swine Flu and the amount of damages nearly sunk the Pharmaceutical industry. VAERS has no ability to sue any big pharmaceutical and only 1 in 100 ever go to court with menial amounts to those who have been harmed and most severely. Guillain-Barré Syndrome is NOT rare but almost always misdiagnosed or lied about by those that gave out the death and disabling shot of covid (Certification of Vaccination ID) which is part of Identification Definition Environmental Framework of the US government including your police, various levels of administration and the putrid public servants.
Bird flu in humans can be fatal. It’s important to note that the risk to the general public remains low. Most human cases are linked to direct contact with infected birds or their environments. But precautions should be taken if you’re in close contact with poultry or wild birds. ChatGPT edited.
ed note–the risk of death after being infected with Bird flu is over 50%, and even though AT THIS TIME the only likely path of transmission is by being in close contact with infected birds, what the virus has done in the last year by finding its way into mammals is what should cause concern for everyone, given that man is a mammal and that the mammals being infected are those that have been domesticated and are part of our food production. And, of course, the other aspect to all of this is the unknown factor of how the virus may have been manipulated by ‘bad actors’ to function in ways that are not part of its nature.